GUEST SERVICES - AYABE

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[kazokun]

Yes. Please treat him well.

[ He gave the thing a gender too. ]

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Is... there a particular reason for that name and gender, sir?

[ why is the brush a he. ]

[kazokun]

That's the feeling I get when I hold him. ...Didn't Peach tell you?

[ About naming things. He was also going to name the kitchen appliances but then I completely forgot/didn't want to sit there and make up 23453809304 different Japanese surnames. ]

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She did tell me you named some of them... [ more like warned her. she's looking at the brush curiously, one ear perked up and the other flopped over ] I can't say I quite understand how it evokes the feeling of a person. Are they someone you know?

[kazokun]

[ He shakes his head, because it's nothing like that. ]

When you name something, you feel a connection to them. Like, this isn't just a brush; he's Morioka-san. In that way, the object because unique, and well loved.

[ He gives Plum a moment to let that sink in. ]

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I see... So the object, in turn, becomes important to you? Or do you name them because they already are?

[kazokun]

[ Does she see, though ]

Hm... Both, I suppose? Like a mother naming her newborn child.

[ IT'S THAT LEVEL OF LOVE AND IMPORTANCE. Sometimes you have a name picked out, sometimes you hold your child and go "Ah, this is the name that feels right." And they're just always important. All cleaning supplies are inherently important, or something. ]

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[ she absolutely fucking doesn't ]

... You feel that strongly about all your household items?

[kazokun]

I have my favorites. That said, Fujishima-san wasn't in the guitar case when I received it. Sugita-san and Makimura-san too.

[ Where are his other children, Plum ): ]

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And what items are those?

[kazokun]

[ I'm at the point where I can slap down whatever votes because what does Ayabe even have to regain? Fujishima-san. ]

Fujishima-san is my broomstick. Sugita-san is a dust pan, and Makimura-san is a dust cloth. Sugita-san is getting old, though... I don't want to be too hard on him and continue using him, but at the same time, he can't be replaced [ in Ayabe's heart ] so easily... What do you think I should do? Is it time for retirement?

[ This is all canon, I can't make this shit up ]

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[ this is sending her. she's standing in a room full of blood with a boy who is asking if he should retire his dust pan. ]

I wouldn't think of it as a replacement, sir. Your dust pan... ah, Sugita-san, is simply due for a break. It [ ...fuck ] He has served you well until now. I'm sure he would not want you to continue to use him if he could no longer do his job properly.

[kazokun]

[ Plum is the only one who can understand(?) and so she is now his confidant. ]

I see. That's a good way to put it... I don't want to strain him, and he would want the job to be done well too.

[ Ayabe will just be sad to let Sugita-san go... but he deserves his rest.

When I first requested this PC, there was a 50-50 chance depending on what Plum's first tag looked like, that Ayabe either 1) asked her about the blood room, or 2) shanked her without question. Somehow, we derailed into this. ]

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[ can i go back to ayabe shanking her instead :/ ]

Exactly. You both want the same thing. You and your... Sugita-san.

[ how did she end up here. ]

[kazokun]

That's right. To make the world a cleaner place.

[ He says, standing in the middle of the blood room. He picks up a scrub brush and gets to work, because this blood isn't going to remove itself, Plum. ]

Ash said that when he looked through his stone... thing. That the walls were bleeding. If you don't know what the room is for, do you at least know what happened here?

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[ she hums a bit and gets to work scrubbing blood that wont come off ig :T ]

I do not know if it is so much what has happened here, specifically, as it is what has happened in this house in general.

[kazokun]

[ WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ]

The murders in this place? Does this room reflect that? Or...

[ Somehow gather up all the blood spilled and feature them here?? help he doesn't understand supernatural rooms ]

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Perhaps. Guests have used this room to attempt to summon things before, as well. It may be a mix of things.

[ guests be weird. ]

[kazokun]

"Summon things"??

[ GUESTS, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

TEEJ WENT TO TELL ME IN A PC THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRAWING BLOOD CIRCLES THIS WEEK AND NOW I KNOW IT'S PLUM'S FAULT ]

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Yes. I know you will not attempt it, sir, so I feel it is safe to tell you. Although I am unsure if it has ever worked.

[ don't blame her for this!! ]

[kazokun]

[ He is not stupid, and he also lost a lot of blood the day prior that he needs to regenerate, so —he should not have been running around screaming all of Monday, for one, but also no he would not summon anything ]

So........... what are they trying to summon? Nothing good.

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[ someone give ayabe some cookies and some orange juice. ]

Oh, many things. Ghosts. Demons. Departed friends. This room seems to attract terrible decision making skills.

[ :/ ]

[kazokun]

Demon summoning and murder. How will any of that help? Stupid.

[ With so many blood rituals, of course there's so much blood! Stupid!

He points to the weird writing spots on the ground. ]

Is this part of that, do you know? Some sort of incantation?

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In desperate situations, people will try anything, sometimes.

[ i mean, she doesn't agree with it, but, y'know. she squints at the writing ]

It might have been, at one point...? I can't tell exactly what it says anymore.

[kazokun]

Can you tell what language? Maybe it's somebody's name?

[ A dying message!! why has nobody written a dying message telling them who the monster is and save them nine hours of grief ]

Or just terrible handwriting.